Education
He first studied in Sopron, and then in Germany at the University of Halle-Wittenberg and University of Jena.
Lutheran pastor president writer
He first studied in Sopron, and then in Germany at the University of Halle-Wittenberg and University of Jena.
He wrote in the wends dialect (the language of the Hungarian Slovenes, people of Prekmurje). Born in Lébény, near Győr to evangelical landowner István Kováts and Katalin Kováts. He was consecrated on September 29, 1889 and made chaplain in Tét, in 1891 in Transylvania.
On March 12, 1892 he went to Wendic March, in Murska Sobota, where he learned the wends dialect.
István Kováts was the president of the Bank of Wendic March, and senior of Evangelical Congregation of Mura up till 1941. From 1941 and up to 1945, he was honorary senior of Evangelical COngregation of Mura.
He built the new evangelical church in Murska Sobota, and the evangelical dormitory. In 1940 he wrote up the history of Evangelical Vicarage of Murska Sobota, and edited the calendar Evangeličanski koledar, and the gazette of Düševni List.
He died in Murska Sobota on 11 December 1945.
Foreign his contribution to the Kingdom of Hungary he received the National Defence Cross (Nemzetvédelmi Kereszt) from Miklós Horthy himself. Alexander I of Yugoslavia awarded him with Order of Saint Sava (IV Class). Zgodovina Mursko-soboške evangeličanske gmajne, Evangeličanski koledar, 1940.